Private Health Insurance

Department/Agency

Health Insurance Authority (HIA)

Key information

Profile of private health insurance (PHI) holders relative to the total population, customers of PHI provider companies classified by sex, age, social status and dependent children, policyholders classified by family status, attitudes to PHI classified by family status and age. Other information includes household state of health, reasons for not switching provider, reasons for no longer having PHI, factors that would encourage uptake of PHI and incidence of claiming on policies.
Information about the operation of employer based PHI schemes within the workplace along with attitudes of employers to PHI is also provided.

Links

Links to web pages that lead to the statistics:

Latest report See "The Private Health Insurance Market in Ireland"
Available in PDF format